I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.